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Sunday, October 7, 2012

World Cardmaking Day, Take 1

Hi, everybody! I hope you had a wonderful World Cardmaking Day yesterday, full of creativity and plenty of time to play! I had the chance to sit down and make a few cards, and I'll be sharing two of them today. I'm playing along at the Paper Smooches Blog, where Kim has issued 3 different challenges: 1. use pink in your card (for Breast Cancer Month), 2. make a single layer card, or 3. make a card using a sketch from Operation Write Home. I combined two of the challenges to create this paper yummy:

I really struggle with single-layer cards, so I wanted to challenge myself to make one. And since I love making Christmas cards in non-traditional colors, I incorporated the pink challenge into this card as well. First, I die cut the double-ended banner die from Lil' Inker Designs, as well as the Layerz Mat Stack 1 Die from Papertrey Ink. I temporarily adhered them onto the right side of my card to be used as masks. With the masks in place, I stamped the large solid circle stamp from the Paper Smooches Hullabaloo set around the edge of the larger die to create a scalloped border around it. I also stamped the houndstooth background from the Debonair set using the second generation stamping technique to give it a worn, distressed look. Then I removed the larger die cut mask and, with the banner die cut still in place, adhered only the negative of the larger die cut in place to use like a stencil. I applied the green ink using a finger dabber. I outlined both die-cut shapes with a black Copic Multiliner to give them more definition, then stamped the sentiment from the Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler set. I finished off the card with some holly leaves and cute pink berries from the Chilly Chums set.

Here's a close-up of the cute little holly leaves and some Stickled pink berries:

I'll be back in a little while to share my second card, which totally has me GIDDY!!! It may be one of my faves to date. Thanks for looking!